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a

brief

confirmation and approval, but beg permission to offer explanation of the circumstances under which the pardon to cach

prisoner was

granted.

The three first

first in the

Descriptive List transmitted

Sescriptive

in

Lieutenant Governor faines Dispatch

" were Military Prisoners, who regularly recommended by Sheriff, while their liberation

were

the

Lieutenant

received the sanction of Colonel Grahamn, Commanding the Forces.

The went, Neil, had been nearly 5 years in prison, and was released in a

dying state. The

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Bishop of Victoria had made repeated applications on his behalf, and the Sheriff, in recommending him, reported as follows: "The " health of this prisoner has suffered

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deplorably. I consider that "nothing but his release from

can cave his life" __

"confinement

1

the

I enclose also a Certificate from the Colonial Surgeon respecting. this man, confirmatory of Sheriffs opinions Cluson, it was

of the of,

officially stated

by

the Sheriff that

his health had "suffered grievourly

from his confinement, and I Susy add that in 7 weeks from

Muay